Basin Street Blues – Easy & Complete

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Won’t you come along with me

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To the Mississippi?

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We’ll take a boat to the land of dreams

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Steam down the river, down to New Orleans

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The band’s there to meet us

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Old friends, there to greet us

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Where all the proud and elite folks meet

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Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street

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Basin Street is the street

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Where the best folks always meet

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In New Orleans, land of dreams

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You’ll never know how nice it seems

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Or just how much it  really means

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Glad to be, oh yes-siree

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Where welcome’s free and dear to me

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Where I can lose, my Basin Street blues